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India’s new budget includes $33 million tallest statue — not everyone is happy to build the world’s By Adam Taylor WASHINGTON: India has just presented its annual budget, which contains measures that seek to encourage growth and limit the deficit. But one detail in the budget has struck many as incongruous with that plan: the equivalent of about $33 million …

Spiritual leader of Dawoodi Bohra community Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin delivers a special sermon on Friday at Taheri Masjid in Saddar. Hundreds of Dawoodi Bohra families attended the congregation to listen to their leader.

LONDON: Czech tennis star Petra Kvitova poses with her 2014 Wimbledon trophy during the Wimbledon Champions Dinner after winning her women’s final against Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard. Petra Kvitova insists winning Wimbledon for the second time was such a sweet success that even becoming the world number one couldn’t be more fulfilling.

CAMBRIDGE (USA): A model wears a Finger Reader ring at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Researchers designed and developed the instrument to enable people with visual disabilities to read text printed on paper or electronic devices.

VILNIUS (Lithuania): People in traditional Lithuanian clothes perform on the Folk Dance Day during the Song Celebration Festival here on Saturday. In 2003 Unesco proclaimed the tradition of the Song and Dance Festivals of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a value of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.